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Other results vary from game to game and from GPU to GPU. Borderlands 3, for example, performs quite a bit better on Windows than on SteamOS across all of our tested GPUs, sometimes by as much as 20 or 30 percent (with smaller gaps here and there). As a game from 2019 with no ray-tracing effects, it still runs serviceably on SteamOS across the board, but it was the game we tested that favored Windows the most consistently. Performance for Windows 11 25H2 vs. SteamOS 3.9 on the same hardware. In general, Windows edges out SteamOS on dedicated GPUs, even…

The Marrakech Film Festival has grown alongside Morocco’s flourishing film industry. When the festival debuted in 2001, the local scene produced just five films a year. Today, that number has surged to around 40, reflecting a variety of initiatives aimed at nurturing and sustaining new generations of talent. Programs like the Atlas Workshops have been instrumental in connecting emerging auteurs onto the international stage, while initiatives such as the female-focused Tamayouz Foundation — founded by three Moroccan filmmakers and two producers — work to remove barriers to entry. The foundation provides entry-level training for women interested in the industry, along…

The final UFC pay-per-view of 2025 delivered two new champions who will enter the new year with golden hardware around their waists. Petr Yan and Joshua Van unseated Merab Dvalishvili and Alexandre Pantoja, respectively, and threw their divisions into a tizzy.At men’s bantamweight, it’s hard to see Yan hold up a title belt and not wonder how things could have been different if the moment that he lost it by disqualification in 2021 had never happened. And at flyweight, a new hard-to-watch moment that resulted in an injury and a changing of the guard may end up affecting that weight…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When flight instructor and former commercial airline pilot Jon Kotwicki happened upon a DC-6 air freighter for sale in 2022, he knew it was the perfect plane to transform into an overnight rental. However, once he made the purchase, “my first thought,” says Kotwicki, “was, ‘My God, what have I done?’” Built in 1956, the 117-foot-wide, 108-foot-long cargo plane had spent its days carrying freight and fuel to remote villages in Alaska before retiring from flight. Now it sits on Kotwicki’s 115-acre property in Big Lake,…

Redcar Area FoodbankEvery day the foodbank reveals an item it wants people to donateA foodbank is asking for donations ahead of Christmas through a reverse advent calendar.Tracy Gibson from the Redcar Area Foodbank said it was “always busy at this time of year” and the advent calendar allowed people to give something to the local community.Every day, the foodbank reveals on social media which item it would like the public to donate, ranging from food to Christmas treats.Alongside the usual essentials, it will be asking for items such as custard, cranberry sauce and gravy.Ms Gibson said instead of people getting…

It is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay.The annual review of the top 200 most common passwords by the tech company NordPass makes depressing reading for security experts, the police and anti-fraud bodies.Although cybersecurity experts keep repeating that simple passwords are extremely easy to guess, these warnings are going unheeded.In the UK, words, number combinations, and common keyboard patterns dominate the top 20. Different variations…

American actor and playwright Jeremy O Harris, known for the Tony-nominated Slave Play, was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country, local authorities said late on Thursday.Harris, 36, was stopped on 16 November at Naha airport on Okinawa island after a customs officer discovered 0.78 grams of crystal containing the synthetic drug MDMA in his tote bag, an Okinawa regional customs spokesperson said.He was immediately arrested on suspicion of violating Japan’s Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act. Local customs officials filed a criminal accusation with the regional prosecutor’s office…

Dijon plays the first three tracks from his acclaimed album, Baby Singer, songwriter and producer Dijon debuted on Saturday Night Live with performances of the first three tracks of his latest album. Dijon opened with “Higher!” from Baby, which came out in August to positive reviews. “Throughout the album, fragments of sounds — fiery adlibs, Golden Age hip-hop samples, whizzing, inverted vocal riffs — all jut out like beams of light piercing through the pitch black of night,” Rolling Stone‘s Jeff Ihaza wrote in a review. After his 2021 debut album, Absolutely, Dijon told The FADER that he would “love…

Getty Images LAS VEGAS — Payton Talbott and Henry Cejudo are the real deal. Talbott improved remarkably from his loss to Raoni Barcelos in January, taking down the Olympic gold medal wrestler twice at UFC 323 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Cejudo, outgunned and outsized, never relented in his final MMA fight, but still came up short on the scorecards to the young Talbott.Saturday’s main card fighters delivered a thrilling scrap that won’t soon be forgotten. Cejudo, bloodied and battered, fought through a crimson mask, refusing to retire quietly. Round 2 was particularly memorable, with Cejudo surviving an offensive onslaught…

Rosetta in Mexico City ranked 39 on the list of Best Restaurants in Latin America 2025. Araceli PazColombia has proven its current culinary status on the world stage. El Chato was just named the best restaurant in Latin America 2025 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, in a ceremony on December 2 held at Santo Domingo del Cerro, in Antigua, Guatemala. Until now, El Chato, the Bogotá-based establishment led by chef Álvaro Clavijo, has inched toward the top spot ranking third in 2024 and second in 2023. But it has been 13 years since a restaurant outside of Peru or…