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Tim Bachman dead at 71: Legendary Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist dies just months after brother Robbie
LEGENDARY guitarist Tim Bachman has died at the age of 71, according to a message from his son.
The co-founding guitarist and vocalist for Canadian Rock band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, reportedly passed away on Friday from complications with cancer.
“My Dad passed this afternoon,” Tim’s son, Ryder Bachman, wrote in a heartfelt Facebook post on Friday.
The musician’s son thanked his father’s followers for their kind words and support during the difficult time.
“Grateful I got to spend some time with him at the end,” he added. “Grab yer loved ones and hug em close, ya never know how long you have.”
Ryder revealed that he had received news that his father was suffering from health complications on Wednesday.
“He had some complications and they rushed him to the emergency unit and found out he has cancer riddled all throughout his brain,’ he wrote.
As soon as he got the news, he headed to the hospital to share some final moments together.
“He was pretty out of it most of the time, but at one point looked up at me with really, big wide eyes and said, ‘I love you Paxton, keep sharing the music…’” Ryder said.
He noted that his father was given treatment to “make him comftorable” in his final days.
Fans and loved ones poured out tributes to the rock star on social media.
“It was a pleasure to know him and be his friend. I’ll never forget the stories he shared with us, and time we got to spend with him,” wrote Brandon Clark.
Many recalled their memories with the rock legend.
“My condolences to you and your family bro. I greatly valued Tim’s friendship and always enjoyed the times we spent together hanging out and swapping stories,” added Warren Grosland.
Tim formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive with his brothers Randy and Robbie, as well as C.F. Turner, in Winnipeg.
The band was known for their their smash hits Takin’ Care of Business, Hey You and Roll On Down The Highway.
The group played together from 1973 until 1974, selling millions of records over the decade.
The star’s death comes just months after his brother, Robbie Bachman, also passed away at the age of 69.
Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive gets even better with 4K upscale mods
With new Cyberpunk 2077 mods releasing every day, it can be difficult to decide which enhancements and changes you should add to the CD Projekt Red RPG game, but this ongoing 4K high-resolution enhancement project is perfectly minimalist, especially when paired with the recent Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.62 RT: Overdrive path tracing update.
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E-book library app OverDrive is shutting down on May 1st
OverDrive, the service you can use to borrow ebooks, audiobooks and other digital media from your local library, school or university, is shutting down. In a blog post spotted by TechCrunch, OverDrive announced last week it would shutter the app on May 1st, 2023. The company first shared it was planning to sunset OverDrive in 2021, revealing at the time that it would delist the service from app stores in February 2022.
The shutdown represents an effort by OverDrive to move the majority of its users over to its newer Libby app. The two services have existed alongside one another since Overdrive introduced Libby in 2017, though there’s little reason to use the older app. Libby offers a handful of features that aren’t available on OverDrive, including, most notably, support for multiple library cards, a unified bookshelf for all your loans and holds and Apple CarPlay support.
If you use OverDrive to enjoy books on your e-reader, you’re probably wondering how the shutdown will affect your Kindle or Kobo. Amazon did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for information on how it plans to handle the transition. However, most signs point to the shutdown being a minor inconvenience for users who haven’t already moved to Libby. In the US, you can send most books you find on Libby to your Kindle device. Moreover, if you’re still using OverDrive, you can sync your wish lists to Libby. As for Kobo devices, a Rakuten spokesperson said the company would have more information to share on the transition in the future. In either case, Engadget will update this article once there’s more to know.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/e-book-library-app-overdrive-is-shutting-down-on-may-1st-194807737.html?src=rss
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ is getting a path-tracing ‘Overdrive Mode’ in April
Nvidia wants game developers to remember that ray tracing isn’t the end of the line. A new Cyberpunk 2077 technology preview (“Overdrive Mode”) supports path tracing, the next goalpost to make games look even prettier and keep you buying expensive new GPUs. The two-year-old game joins Minecraft, Portal and Quake II — titles with relatively primitive graphics — in supporting the technology. In addition, Nvidia announced the availability of a developer kit to pave the way for the next generation of bleeding-edge graphics.
While ray tracing follows a single beam of light across a virtual scene, path tracing follows the light as it bounces around an environment, more realistically mimicking how it works in the physical world. It determines how nearby surfaces reflect or absorb the light, producing physically accurate soft shadows that more easily convince our brains that we’re viewing a natural, real-life scene. And humans perceiving graphics as more realistic is (naturally) an advancement the gaming industry will pursue without hesitation. Hollywood has used path tracing for decades, but it was a slow and expensive process that couldn’t work on consumer gear or in anything close to real-time.
However, we need to keep our expectations in check for the moment: You’ll need the most powerful Nvidia RTX 40-series GPUs to enjoy Cyberpunk 2077’s path tracing (and those who do may run into performance issues). Still, Nvidia is eager to nudge the industry toward what will be increasingly possible for consumer graphics in the coming years.
Nvidia says two of its technologies were vital in producing this milestone: DLSS 3 (AI-based image upscaling without performance loss) and Shader Execution Reordering (more efficient ray tracing without losing quality). “DLSS allows games to render 1/8th of the pixels, then uses AI and GeForce RTX Tensor Cores to reconstruct the rest, dramatically multiplying frame rates, while delivering crisp, high-quality images that rival native resolution,” Nvidia explained in its announcement.
Although we’ll probably have to wait a while before this technology becomes widely accessible, Nvidia launched a new SDK this week to let developers prepare. Owners of the latest and greatest Nvidia GPUs can test the Cyberpunk 2077 “Overdrive Mode” tech preview starting on April 11th.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cyberpunk-2077-is-getting-a-path-tracing-overdrive-mode-in-april-171558980.html?src=rss